Shares of Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRDN – Get Free Report) gapped down before the market opened on Thursday after Oppenheimer lowered their price target on the stock from $36.00 to $31.00. The stock had previously closed at $14.90, but opened at $14.18. Oppenheimer currently has an outperform rating on the stock. Viridian Therapeutics shares last traded at $13.96, with a volume of 105,529 shares traded.
Several other equities analysts have also commented on VRDN. B. Riley lowered shares of Viridian Therapeutics from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $25.00 to $20.00 in a research note on Thursday. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $30.00 price target on shares of Viridian Therapeutics in a research note on Thursday. Wedbush upped their price objective on shares of Viridian Therapeutics from $39.00 to $40.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 28th. HC Wainwright reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $37.00 target price on shares of Viridian Therapeutics in a research report on Thursday, February 29th. Finally, LADENBURG THALM/SH SH downgraded Viridian Therapeutics from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $35.60.
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Viridian Therapeutics Stock Down 6.4 %
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.09, a quick ratio of 18.26 and a current ratio of 18.26. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $16.46 and its 200 day moving average is $17.64. The firm has a market capitalization of $890.29 million, a PE ratio of -2.63 and a beta of 1.14.
Viridian Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VRDN – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 8th. The company reported ($0.79) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($1.07) by $0.28. Viridian Therapeutics had a negative net margin of 75,711.48% and a negative return on equity of 121.80%. The business had revenue of $0.07 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $0.09 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned ($1.61) EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was down 26.5% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. will post -4.39 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
About Viridian Therapeutics
Viridian Therapeutics, Inc, a biotechnology company, discover and develops treatments for serious and rare diseases. The company's product pipeline includes VRDN-001, a monoclonal antibody targeting insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor that is in Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED); and VRDN-003, a next generation IGF-1R humanized monoclonal antibodies targeting IGF-1R and incorporating half-life extension technology for the treatment of TED.
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